It's been a safe Labor seat with a margin of 8.5 per cent, but of course, as we just heard, all of that could change today.

Annie, it's still early, the booths have only just opened, but have you spoken to anyone? What are people saying about Kevin Rudd this morning?

ANNIE GUEST: Elizabeth, the AEC (Australian Electoral Commission) staff are just setting up the polling booth here outside one of the major hospitals here in Kevin Rudd's seat of Griffith. It's closer to the city end of Griffith, and it's near the restaurant area of Southbank as well, where small business owners and restaurateurs do want to see a change of government. And many have said they don't feel that they have enough support.

But here outside the hospital, people going by, and staff among them have told me that some people have said Kevin Rudd still has their vote, because they think he's a good representative. Others have told me they don't like the leadership instability, or they don't think that heís performed well during the campaign.

ELIZABETH JACKSON: Do they say much about the Coalition's candidate, Bill Glasson? Now, he has a fairly high profile as former president of the AMA (Australian Medical Association), and as we've just discussed, is shaping up to be quite a threat to Kevin Rudd, but have people spoken specifically about him?

ANNIE GUEST: No, it seems Elizabeth that people identify more with the leader on that side, or on both sides. So it's more mentioning Tony Abbott than Bill Glasson. And in talking to people around Griffith over the past couple of years, an unscientific reporter's poll definitely detects a change in sentiment.

Mr Rudd seemed widely held in high esteem, with voters feeling that he'd been wronged when Julia Gillard became leader. But once they perceived that that wrong was righted, it seemed they took a fresh look and didn't like what they saw. And it's certainly been a seat that's had a lot of attention from the Coalition, and some say that they're seeking poetic justice for John Howard's unseating in 2007.

They deny that - there has been a lot of help for Bill Glasson, the high profile doctor and former AMA leader, and the Coalition does think that he is in with a strong chance.

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